Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning from things secular to sacred has plenty of precedents. Within the past decade, U.S. seminaries have been getting a striking and measurable increase in applications from men in their 30s and 40s who want to abandon successful secular careers in everything from baseball to business. About one-third of the candidates at Vanderbilt Divinity School are former business or professional men, including a 43-year-old Memphis lawyer, a 39-year-old trucking-firm vice president, a 38-year-old photographer. Three years ago, at the age of 37, Rion Dixon was an executive of St. Louis' International...
Some ecumenists fear also that it may be even harder to resolve the economic problem of merging church properties and ecclesiastical funds than it is to settle doctrinal disputes of primary interest to theologians. This down-to-earth secular issue may well prove the ultimate stumbling block for the diffident, well-organized Methodists, who are three times more numerous than any other church involved in the consultation, and who seem more interested in cementing ties of friendship within world Methodism. Bishop F. Gerald Ensley of Columbus, Ohio, warned that his church "already has its hands full" negotiating its own merger...
...into the propaganda outlets of the Supreme Islamic Council, which praises Nasser almost as much as God. But favors given could be favors withheld when they no longer fulfill a national purpose. Islamic nation-states increasingly take their ideas and institutions-such as penal codes and constitutions-from the secular experience of the East and West, rather than the Shariah (religious...
...memory of Buchenwald. Yet since World War II, the peoples of Europe, for all their lingering animosities, have begun to develop more of a common loyalty to the whole region and idea of Europe. Moreover, adds Harvard Sinologist Professor Benjamin Schwartz, "The West has achieved the modern secular state, and its machinery does tend to control internal strife. But most Asian countries are not yet modern nations in this sense...
This-Worldly God. The secular city demands not only a renewed message from the church but a renewed lan guage. Technopolis, Cox argues, sees no meaning in religious terminology derived from tribal society-God as Father, for example-or even in the metaphysical discourse of town culture that defined God as Supreme Being. Its proper language is, in the broadest sense of the word, politics. Thus, says Cox, if the church is to preach God to the emerging secular city, it must find a secular, pragmatic way of proclaiming him in mis-worldly terms. This will not be easily...